[CASSANDRA-5811] NPE during upgrade

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.9
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Created: 26/Jul/13 17:54
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 15/Aug/13 17:34

Description

The upgrade_through_versions dtest occasionally fails with the following error (on the 1.1 side):

ERROR [InternalResponseStage:2] 2013-07-26 12:51:10,145 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 135) Exception in thread Thread[InternalResponseStage:2,5,main]
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167)
    at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124)
    at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77)
    at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35)
    at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$Row.getString(UntypedResultSet.java:87)
    at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromSchema(KSMetaData.java:256)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeKeyspaces(DefsTable.java:397)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:373)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeRemoteSchema(DefsTable.java:352)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$MigrationTask$1.response(MigrationManager.java:453)
    at org.apache.cassandra.net.ResponseVerbHandler.doVerb(ResponseVerbHandler.java:45)
    at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:59)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-5612 NPE when upgrading a mixed version 1.1/1.2 cluster fully to 1.2